By Hilda Cuzco, The Militant,
15 April 1996. The DPRK has appealed for more aid to
relieve food shortages caused by disastrous floods last
year. On February 7, Pyongyang had halted appeals for aid
from foreign relief agencies because hostile
elements, mainly in South Korea, were trying to use
this appeal to demand political concessions from North
Korea.

By Susmit Kumar, People’s News Agency, 5 August
1997. Surveys the history of North Korea since the
Russo-Japanese War; data on present political-economic
situation; CIA assessment as a rogue country;
famine; evaluates likely scenarios for the immediate
future.

By Argiris Malapanis and Samantha Kern, 7 September
1998. Between July 18 and July 25 the authors were part of
an international fact-finding delegation that visited the
DPRK. It was initiated by the World Federation of
Democratic Youth (WFDY) and hosted by the Kim Il Sung
Socialist Youth League. The purpose was to get the facts
about the Korean people’s struggle to reunify their
country and the ongoing campaign by Washington and Tokyo
to deny Korea the right to national sovereignty.

By John Catalinotto, Workers
World, 17 September 1998. Ten days before the 50th
anniversary of the founding of the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, socialist north Korea
launched its first satellite into orbit Aug. 31.

By Selig S. Harrison, Le Monde
diplomatique, November 2003. To many foreign
observers North Korea is on the verge of collapse, beset
by insuperable problems attributable to a rigid Stalinist
orthodoxy. But North Korea is more likely to survive by
moving toward a liberalisation of its economy broadly
similar to what has been happening in China since the
death of Mao.